Prequalification for Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy Services in Somalia and Somaliland

Job Description
Prequalification for Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy Services in Somalia  and Somaliland

Background:

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.  We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.  And its girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.  We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood.  And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Plan international has started programmes in Somalia/Somaliland that focuses on child protection, education, youth economic empowerment programming, food security, health and nutrition, working with/through partners and providing technical support to INGOs, Somaliland NGOs and the Government of Somaliland in Plan’s areas of expertise.

Objectives of the EOI:

To inform and improve its programming and asses impact of our interventions, Plan International relies heavily relies on the qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. In view of this, Plan International Somalia/Somaliland wishes to identify firms/companies or/and Individual Consultants with monitoring, and evaluation and research experience in Somalia and Somaliland.

Plan International invites Monitoring, Evaluation and Research consulting companies, for the provision of MERL services to Plan International Somalia/Somaliland. Selected companies or individual consultants will be integrated into the Plan Somalia/Somaliland pool of consulting firms or roster and will be invited to tender whenever assignments come up.


Skills and Qualifications
Criteria:

An eligible company must meet the following criteria to be considered for the inclusion in the prequalified of consulting M&E firms:

·         Extensive experience (5 years) in conducting and managing assessments, evaluations, baselines, impact studies, feasibility studies, rapid assessment, and PDM is required

·         Should have consultancy experience in the following sectors: child protection, livelihood/food security, education, health and nutrition, gender, WASH

·         Must have very good knowledge Somalia/Somaliland context and diverse networks with local communities and authorities, NGO, private and public sector.

·         Experience in donor compliance, accountability,

·         Valid business license and registration certificate issued by the relevant ministries in Somalia or/and Somaliland

·         Tax Clearance Certificate from the relevant ministry

·         Company financial stability (Bank statements) for the last two years.

·         Sample (at least 3) of recent reports, final version, that have been submitted and accepted by clients

·         CVs of key staff including lead consultant, and team leader

·         Three official recommendation letters from clients or organizations that have contracted consultancy work

·         Only complete applications will be considered.

Criteria for Individual Consultants

·         CV and letter of expression of interest

·         Sample of three recent reports

·         Three References of clients worked with official emails

·         Recommendation letters from the previously contracted clients

Evaluation process:

·         Applicants will be firstly evaluated on the completeness of legal business requirements including licence and other certificates.

·         Applicants who pass the first stage will be go through technical evaluation

·         Finally, Plan International Somalia/Somaliland will invite the technical qualified applicants that gets highest points for an oral interview

·         Plan International will invite for those applicants obtained the highest combined results of the oral interview and technical evaluation to include the prequalified list of the M&E consultancies.  

How to apply
All interested and eligible M&E and Research companies or individual consultants must submit the above required documents in soft copy to this email: [email protected] by not later than 14 November 23 with the subject of the email: Application for Plan M&E Consultancy. Please note that late submissions will not be considered.


 
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